The ECAT ART scanner for positron emission tomography: 1. Improvements in performance characteristics

Clinical Positron Imaging (Netherlands)

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 5-15

  Townsend, David W ^a   Beyer, Thomas ^a   Jerin, Jeff ^b   Watson, Charles C ^b   Young, John ^b   Nutt, Ronald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CTI PET Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

Coincidence Window; ECAT ART; Improved Performance; Integration Time; Positron Tomography; Singles Transmission

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002751685     PISSN: 10950397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-0397(98)00057-0     Document Type: Article

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